Quote Originally Posted by gifthorse View Post
Exactly. It's just sad that they think spamming actions was a necessary evil of the original system. It isn't. Guild Wars 2, SWTOR, TERA, Blade & Soul, DCUO, basically every next-gen MMO has active combat. If FFXIV thinks it can compete with auto-attack... well they're right. They can always compete in the special olypmics.
Thats why I think combat like we see in the FFXIII Versus trailers would be the new way to do combat in MMOs today. Although I don't know if their current game engine could be adapted to make combat like that in FFXIV.